Memorial Day Weekend

We had a busy weekend over the holiday. On Saturday Ella was invited to a princess tea party at a friend from school's house. We drove way out to Little Elm in the morning, went home for Bennett's nap and then down to our old neighborhood to Nathan & Jill's house for a BBQ. It was a full day of fun!

Playing in Dutch's pool

Ella, Dutch & Lola with Bennett and Sarge on the sidelines

Picnic Dinner
Kennedy, Ella, Bennett, Dutch and Lola

Bath time!!

Dutch, Ella & Kennedy got to stay up late and watch a movie so the adults could hang out in the back

St. Thomas

Chris and I spent 5 days in St. Thomas. It is a beautiful island but we probably won't be going back, at least not anytime soon. If we do make it back there one day we will definitely do things differently. The trip was great and we were able to relax. There was a slight complication leaving DFW. Apparently there was a mechanical problem on the airplane so our flight was delayed and delayed.... We started getting worried that we were going to miss our connection in Miami. Finally Chris goes up to the desk and asks and they switch us to a new flight changing in Puerto Rico but we'd have no bags until the following day. The good thing is our friends, Scott & Laura, were already at the hotel and offered up some clothes to help out. The bad thing is we had to cancel our day sail for Monday. It's a little hard to go out on the boat and snorkel without a swimsuit! The luggage didn't make it to the hotel until almost 5:00. ANNOYING!!!! I was so happy Laura loaned me some shorts and a tank top so I didn't have to wear pants to the beach. After we had our stuff we were ready to enjoy ourselves so we headed out to get a taxi and venture across the island for dinner. Well, Chris & Scott got sick on the drive everytime we rode in a taxi so that put an end to leaving the hotel! We did take a ferry to St. John. That's a gorgeous island. I think a stay there would be awesome minus the mosquitos that attacked us over there. The rest of the time we pretty much hung out at the beach and went into town (by water taxi). It's probably better to rent a car but the roads are so different than here. I think it'd be a little scary to drive over there. We'll be sticking to the 50 states for a while. That's okay with me, plent of great cities I haven't seen yet!

View from my lounge chair

Crystal clear water in St. John

Cinnamon Bay, St. John

Chris, me, Scott & Laura after dinner

The big rock on the beach at the Marriott

The wave came crashing in and got me and my SLR camera soaked. My camera didn't work the same for the rest of the trip but it works.

View of the island

Our last sunset in St. Thomas

Bennett turned 11 months (a couple weeks ago)

I'm a little late in posting, but better late than never!  Bennett turned 11 months and was quite happy about it.  He cut his 7th tooth, claps all the time - especially when he hears a crowd cheering in the background, he waves - sometimes, stands on his own, can take a step and continues to eat.  The day after he turned 11 months Chris and I left for St. Thomas and my mom came up and stayed with the kids for the week.  They all had a ball.  She was just as excited to stay with the kids as we were to go on vacation.  While we were away I received a text message that read "Guess who just took six steps".  So we weren't there for his first walk across the room but he did walk to me when I go home and it was really sweet.  He's all over now and into EVERYTHING!

I'm having problems and can't upload pictures to the blog.  For some reason it's telling me failure for each picture I try so I have to keep uploading these slideshows which I am not a fan of.  Anyone know how to help me?

Catching up

It's been a while since I posted anything.  A lot has happened over the past few weeks.  As soon as I got home from San Francisco I got sick, my dad came for a visit, Bennett got an ear infection and I was trying to get prepared for our vacation without the kids.  I didn't even post Bennett's 11 month update.  I will do that next.  Here are some pictures from April along with anything that might have happened.